Help, wanted: Czech speaker / reader

**Diderick A. den Bakker** · #1 01-05-2013, 05:36 AM

I s there anyone out there who can read Czech? I have started on the Soyuz launch station, an old Albatros model (1985), but am stuck because the sketch is not clear enough. I need a few paragraphs translated...

**Diderick A. den Bakker** · #2 01-05-2013, 12:41 PM

I need to keep this request alive, especially in the weekend when there are most visitors... Anyone with a Czech friend or relation?!

**billy.leliveld** · #3 01-05-2013, 01:31 PM

He, Diderick
Maybe you can scan the instructions , and put them up here...
it would be so much easier for someone to respond , i think there are even computer-programs that can regonise and translate scanned text...

**Thomas Meek** · #4 01-05-2013, 01:44 PM

I have had good results scanning the original, then to an Image-to-text program (Be sure you have the correct language dialed in or the accents will come out garbage) And then run the Czech text through a translating program, such as Google Translate.

The grammar and syntax are likely to be odd, but the text readable.

**SCEtoAUX** · #5 01-05-2013, 01:46 PM

Maybe this will help. It is an online OCR site that lists Czech as one of the languages supported. You scan the document then upload the image to the site. I have not tried it out so do not know how good the service is.
Free online OCR

**Diderick A. den Bakker** · #6 01-05-2013, 03:32 PM

Of course I tried that - it comes out total gobbledigook. Any idea what 'hammerklavier Thursday' might have been in Czech?! Or what it does in this text, for that matter?!

**Bionic Modeler** · #7 01-05-2013, 09:04 PM

I tried it in Google translate (autod detect) and it came out as swedish "hammer piano"

**imcold** · #8 01-06-2013, 12:59 AM

Feel free to PM me.

**Diderick A. den Bakker** · #9 01-06-2013, 08:47 AM

The forum has worked again - Imtech has kindly helped me out. See my Soyuz thread if you have become interested.